API has seen significant
growth over recent years, especially in the large-scale
tech firms as well as messaging services provider firms. API is the short form for the Application Programming
Interface. Lately, it has been
integrated as a part of programming and as a connectivity use between two
applications or software. Albeit unknown, this is a program that has been
widely used in day to day processes such
as messages, social media, programming, operating systems and many more.
To make this easier to understand how API
actually works, let’s take this simple example. You go to a restaurant for dinner. In this scenario, the restaurant is termed as a ‘system’. If you want
to order something from the menu and to
make sure that order reaches to the kitchen, there has to be a link, i.e. a waiter. The waiter or an API is the
messenger that ensures that the order is
conveyed to the kitchen and tells them- the system, what to do. The waiter in return will deliver the food. This connectivity
of messaging is done through API. Hence it can be termed as a connectivity
interface between two platforms or application.
What does API provide?
In this modern communication and digital world,
the data of your phone is never completely exposed to the server, and all the information of the server is never
fully revealed to the user. That is
where API has become so valuable. It communicates with only small packets of
data, which means that the necessary data is only shared. For example, if you are booking a hotel, you filter
what kind of hotel you require and the facilities included, the search results will show only specific
data as per your requirement in return.
And in the end, you book your
hotel room. Expedia, Amazon, eBay, Google are few of the large firms that are
using the API and monetizing from it.
Growth in the messaging
service sector due to API
Bulk SMS service is a sector that has been
developing at a steady rate over the past few years. By the integration of API as a part of their
source code, it often enables free SMS send API for the purchasers and providers. As
it also provides an additional layer of security for the code, and it being programming friendly, it is
availed of them by various sectors such
as Banking, Mobile service providers.
As a part of their trial run or promotional
offers, free API provider is
also seen sending out competitive quotations, as everyone wants a piece of this
rapidly growing sector.
It is an integrated part of this industry now as API has a vast amount of benefits if used a part of their
package, as seeing the visible growth of the companies availing API in their
messaging services, it ensures that the data of the clients as well as their
server database are more secured. This is the reason why the Free SMS service
providers are much in demand.
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